The emotional premise and nostalgic aesthetic aren’t enough to make up for the weak narrative resolution, poor optimization, and virtually nonexistent gameplay progression.

Dynasty Warriors 9 Empires is a mediocre strategy and mediocre Musou title as well. It's certainly not worth the full price mark and in case you're not a die-hard fan, it really might not be worth your time either.

Fans definitely expected more from these remasters, while someone who hasn’t gone through these stories before will probably still be able to see what’s great about them - despite the changes the remasters have brought. Without a doubt, the original season of Life is Strange and even Before the Storm prequel, are great adventures, but should be experienced in their original form that is still available.

If you gave someone who absolutely despises 3D platformers to make one, you’d probably get something like Epic Mickey Rebrushed. Even though this Remaster looks nicer than the original, it only managed to remind us how disappointing the original game was. As much as we love Mickey Mouse and 3D platformers, maybe it’s time to use the paint thinner on this one.

As much as we’d like to say that there’s a good stealth game for kids, Totally Spies! Cyber Mission doesn't deserve that praise. We really wanted to like this game but the frustrating enemies, fake co-op and other unpolished mechanics didn’t let us. Sorry girls, but this mission is a failure.

With a solid but simple combat system but all other aspects of the game in trouble, the new Valkyrie only barely manages to rise above the mediocre.

In essence, Extraction lacks excitement. More often than not it is a glorified zombie mod that would feel more at home in Siege. On the other hand, it seems somewhat of an odd experiment whose existence is difficult to justify. The result is an experience lacking in content which to newcomers might still end up feeling hostile while at the same time alienating veterans of the franchise.

Visually striking but overloaded with ideas and mechanics that mostly fail to enhance the fun, and built on a fundamental misunderstanding of what makes arcade racing enjoyable, Screamer comes across as yet another failed attempt by Milestone to create something outside the realm of hardcore motorcycle simulations.

Jujutsu Kaisen: Cursed Clash is a very lazy attempt to introduce new players to the anime and an insult to fans. While online modes can be fun, I simply couldn’t get over an uninspiring battle system and how the story was retold through static images.

If you're a super-fan of the franchise, you might be able to get something out of this package. It's more than clear that this is a rushed product that was supposed to be DLC for last year's game and not a full-priced "new game" - so it's up to you to judge whether it's worth your money.

Concord is a game that came out eight years too late and as a result is visibly lagging behind its competition in every way. This game makes sense to buy only if you are bored of every other hero shooter game and you have excess money in your pocket that you urgently need to get rid of.

If you ever find yourself in a traffic jam due to the most unnecessary road works for who knows what reason, you can remember that someone made this simulator.

Big Rumble Boxing: Creed Champions is one of those simple but fun arcade games that can entertain you for a while, but neither Rocky Balboa personally nor all the music from the movies are enough to cover up the lack of more meaningful systems and content.

Ilusion Island brings some unconvincing and lukewarm modern mix of indie platformer and Metroidvania where things are often so simple that you get the impression that the very existence of this title is forced. Mickey and friends had much better platformer adventures 30 years ago.

If you enjoy FMV games and miss the PC period when only such releases were around, this is the game for you.

Although it is a descendant of the franchise that created the survival horror genre, Alone in the Dark from 2024 does not bring too much survival, nor horror. Apart from the new puzzles, this game does not bring anything interesting to the table.

After much struggle to survive and poor implementation of gaming mechanics, you get a game that is as difficult as previous titles on which the developers worked, but with little chance of taking the fight back to your opponents and winning it fairly. Wanted: Dead is definitely not worth your time, as there are many other games today that do a much better job at balancing challenge and difficulty.

Atlas Fallen kinda reminds us of Forspoken, in the most negative way possible. It is a shallow, open-world adventure that doesn’t bring anything revolutionary or innovative to the table.

The new Saints Row brings you... well, more Saints Row action just a little toned down this time, which makes the inferiority to the GTA series more clearer than ever. Still, if you've been missing games of this type, it can be fun at least in short bursts.

Unknown 9: Awakening is not a total failure, but it is not a guiding star on the video game horizon either. It may have had the potential to become something bigger, but the current execution leaves a lot of room for improvement. If you want a fun way to an unforgettable adventure, maybe you should look elsewhere.

Old gameplay mechanics and some minor innovations are not guaranteeing that this series is going in the right direction. Sports games and real money microtransaction don't mix well. Zero respect for the time of the players that don't have fat wallets.

Wrath of the Mutants is an old-school arcade port that adds little new to the 'home' version of the game, which can still be completed in about an hour. It's mainly for TMNT collectors and younger fans of the newer turtles.

Playing Skull and Bones is like taking a really long boat ride. Sure, it gets exciting at times, but most of the time you’re just going through the motions, raising those numbers and wondering why you are even playing a game that’s clearly inferior to the game it was based on.

Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions changes the traditional Quidditch rules so they make more sense, but doesn’t have enough content to survive as a live service game. Just like how the Harry Potter books and movies have forgotten about this senseless wizard sport, we think you will too.

We’ve had a lot of great JRPGs this year, but this isn’t one of them. Unless you’re a fan of Fairy Tail, there are very few reasons why you’d want to play this game. The battles are generic, the game expects you to know the plot and it often seems like the game just wants you to be done with it and move on.

With legacy that Blood Bowl has, it was presumed that the sequel would be better than the predecessor. Unfortunately that is not the case with this game. Unfortunate fumble, I need my Rat Ogre one more time.

Syberia Remastered is like a beautiful but empty frame — polished on the outside, yet lacking any real substance within to justify the time or money. It remains a game frozen in the era of its original release, never adapting to modern standards. This remaster was the perfect opportunity to fix that, but unfortunately, it’s an opportunity that was completely wasted.

A remaster of a nostalgic special game from the old GameCube days, it brings nothing special to the table other than the chance to play this classic on modern systems with limited upgrades and a slew of issues that ruin the retro experience.

The final title in the first season of this anthology is a mediocre experience worth trying, but one you'll probably only feel the need to go through once.

Start your mowers, start aggressively into the battle with the overgrown grass (but not too aggressively in order as not to damage the engine) and show the world that you have mastered another absurd game.

LEGO Brawls delivers fast-paced fun and plenty of content but not much depth. Unless you're a super fanatic for all things LEGO, this title is unlikely to hold your attention for long.

We can only recommend the game to extreme fans of the Batman/Gotham universe as well as people who have this as their first PlayStation 5 game because once you start any other game and see 60fps with good controls, Gotham Knights will be instantly forgotten.

Blades of Fire brings a fresh combat system and addictive weapon crafting, but its unconvincing story and poorly designed levels with excessive backtracking wear players down. At 60 hours, it's far too long for what it offers, with technical issues adding to the frustration—but its colorful visual style and engaging combat might still appeal to Action RPG fans.

Better buy real lasagna instead of wasting money on this very poor copy of Mario Party.

On paper, South Park: Snow Day! sounds like a blast—a co-op RPG action set in the 3D world of the legendary series, complete with its trademark unfiltered humor. However, in practice, the completely broken combat system and very poor technical solutions make this title look like nothing more than a huge missed opportunity.

Log Away taught me that the hardest part of escaping into the woods isn’t hunger or the cold, but fighting the interface and desperately searching for anything - absolutely anything - meaningful to do.

Postal that we don't want to remember. Definitely an unfinished piece of software that will let even the most ardent fans know that for some games it is better to stay in the past forever.

All in all, you have a really bad shooter with even worse acting, non-existent mission variations, bugs that have been around for over half a year, and a ton of other things that will put you off ever starting this game again - you could say that it's “criminally bad” (pun intended).

A legendary Japanese RPG like Chrono Cross deserves much better treatment than this devastatingly bad remaster.

Babylon's Fall, an otherwise ambitious and potential ridden project crumbles under the weight of bad design decisions much like the famous tower its title refers to.

Unfortunately, War Mongrels is yet another failure to resurrect the original Commandos formula. Bugs, terrible AI, and horrid controls will ruin the experience for those nostalgics who just want to relive the magic of and old-school real-time tactical games.

Unfortunately for the fans, this is a missed opportunity. Flashback 2 is a name that induces great respect between members of retro gaming communit but because of this game that name has been smudged. We hope that this title will be forgotten quickly and that there will be a second try at this franchise, this time with a new developer team at the helm if possible.

A textbook example of how not to remaster games from the PlayStation 2 era, these defective "definitive" releases are just desecration of three classic titles that deserve much better treatment.